This article is about the city square. For the historical event, see 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square in 2006
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
天安门广场
Traditional Chinese
天安門廣場
Hanyu Pinyin
Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng
Bopomofo
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄢ ㄇㄣˊ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄔㄤˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Tian'anmen Goangchaang
Wade–Giles
Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3
IPA
[tʰjɛ́n.án.mə̌nkwǎŋ.tʂʰàŋ]
Wu
Shanghainese Romanization
Thie-oe-men Kuaon-zan
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Tīn'ōnmùhn Gwóngchèuhnḡ
Jyutping
Tin1on1mun4 Gwong2coeng4
IPA
[tʰíːn.ʔɔ́ːn.mȕːnkʷɔ̌ːŋ.tsʰœ̏ːŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Thian-an-mn̂g Kóng-tiûⁿ
Manchu name
Manchu script
ᡝᠯᡥᡝ ᠣᠪᡠᡵᡝ ᡩᡠᡴᠠ
Romanization
elhe obure duka
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (/ˈtjɛnənmən/[1]) is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City. The square contains the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there.[2] The size of Tiananmen Square is 765 x 282 meters (215,730 m2 or 53.31 acres).[3] It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history.
Outside China, the square is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown due to international media coverage, internet and global connectivity, its political implications, and other factors.[4][5][6] Within China, little, if anything about the massacre is known by most Chinese due to strict censorship of knowledge of the crackdowns by the Chinese Communist Party.[7]
^"Tiananmen Square". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021.
^The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed
^"Tiananmen Square incident". Britannica. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
^Miles, James (2 June 2009). "Tiananmen killings: Were the media right?". BBC News. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
^"Tiananmen Square protest death toll 'was 10,000'". BBC News. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
^"The Truth Behind The Tiananmen Square Massacre - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
^Pu, Bao (2015-06-03). "Tiananmen and the Chinese Way of Censorship". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
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